--- title: Stranded Kitten Is Rescued From Highway By Kind Driver description: A tiny kitten stranded in the middle of a Russian highway was rescued by a kind stranger after falling out of the window of a speeding car. canonical: https://time.com/4497666/kitten-highway-rescue/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-16T21:31:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:41.288Z og:title: Tiny Kitten Stranded on Highway Is Rescued By Kind Driver og:description: Looks like this cat used some of its 9 lives og:url: https://time.com/4497666/kitten-highway-rescue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7601e95dc09047f8/6988a680a988ca5ef86b973c/kitten-rescued-highway.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: CHINA-ANIMALS-CATS og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tiny Kitten Stranded on Highway Is Rescued By Kind Driver twitter:description: Looks like this cat used some of its 9 lives twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7601e95dc09047f8/6988a680a988ca5ef86b973c/kitten-rescued-highway.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch This Heroic Driver Rescue a Cute But Stressful Kitten Stranded on a Highway > Sponsored content. 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AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE / AFP / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) A kitten sits in his enclosure at a Buddhist temple in the suburbs of Shanghai on December 3, 2015\. A monk named Zhi Xiang has given shelter to some 100 stray cats and dogs at the Bao'en temple, because 'I can't see them die. I know I cannot offer them a good life here, but at least I can keep them alive', Xiang explains. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE / AFP / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) JOHANNES EISELE-AFP/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 16, 2016 9:31 PM UTC In a tale that is simultaneously heartwarming and quite stressful, [a tiny kitten](http://time.com/2837414/turn-down-for-what-kittens/) in Russia was rescued after being stranded in the middle of a Kaliningrad highway after falling out of a speeding car window. The petite feline spent four seconds sitting in the middle of the road, where several cars almost ran it over before a kind stranger pulled over to rescue the small animal. Its rescuer was later identified as Denis Degtyarev, who reported to [Life.Ru](https://life.ru/t/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8/904075/voditiel%5Fv%5Fkalininghradie%5Fsdielal%5Fdvukhkilomietrovyi%5Fkriukchtoby%5Fspasti%5Fkotionka) that the cat is unharmed and has already found a new family. “I checked him quickly as I picked him up, he looked deeply shocked but all right, in that nothing was broken or badly bruised,” Degtyarev said. “There was no blood. I drove it to the sport school which my kids attend, and there friends of ours quickly found him a new family. 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